Re: question....

[Woody]

Keh-Ming Luoh wrote:

> I try to make a partition which starts from the head of hard disk and 
> ends to the end of the hard disk.
>
> I check the source code of parted (1.6.5). It seems I can use ‘-0’ to 
> indicate the end of the hard disk.
>
> I tried it in interactive mode. It works. But I need this in 
> non-interactive mode. I tried two ways, and both of them didn’t work.
>
> The first I tried:
>
> parted /dev/hdc mkpart ext2 0 -0
>
> The second I tried:
>
> parted /dev/hdc << EOF
>
> mkpart ext2 0 -0
>
> EOF
You shoud use -s option - (script), e.g.

parted -s /dev/hdc mkpart ext2 0 -0

Woody